With IT now playing a central role in business processes, common gripes IT has heard a thousand times have suddenly become crisis-level concerns: IT can’t run a budget IT can’t produce solutions the business needs IT is only good at keeping systems running (and even that, barely) Nothing new there, but the potential downside of […]
Let’s get one thing clear—humans are not digital by nature. No matter how fluent you become in 1s and 0s, you weren’t born to spend all day in front of a glowing computer screen designing UX modules. And this work may be worse than just unnatural—a recent study suggests it’s actively damaging to your health! […]
Soft skills. A solid candidate for “buzzword of the year” in the world of business training— and the competency area IT people are most resistant towards developing. Not that I can blame them. Who wants to spend an afternoon in a windowless seminar room while a business exec with a peroxide-bleached smile lectures on and […]
I overheard an IT professional tell the following story the other day: My girlfriend was picking out a new laptop, and she said she really wanted a Mac. She said she likes how Macs look and feel, and that she thinks Apple products are cool. But I told her Macs are a waste of money— […]
